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DE-SEX
THE BIBLE
by
Clayton Steep
The push to eliminate all sexual distinctions in society is now
challenging God and the Bible.
S
UPPOSE YOU
were
to
open your
Bible tomorrow
and read: "Our
Householder;
Which art in
he a ven; Hal–
lowed be Thy
name; Thy ruler–
ship come ... "
What would
you think?
Yet this is how
what is commonly–
and erroneously–
called the "Lord's
Prayer" would begin
if a n increasingly
vocal movement
were to have its way.
Or how about begin–
ni ng with "Our Sus–
tainer," "Our Per–
son," "Our Parent,"
o r "Our Mother
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Father, which art in
heaven"? Actually,
even the term
"Lord 's Prayer"
would have to be
changed to "Ruler's
Prayer" or "Governor 's Prayer"
or sometbing similar, since the
word
Lord
i~
masculine and
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therefore-we are told- sexist.
But this would be only the
beginning!
Tbe
words
"Lord" and "Fa–
ther," "King" and
"Master" would also
have to go. "God of
our fathers" or
"God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob"
would be replaced
with "God of our
ancestors." "Man"
would
become
"people"
and
"bretbren" would be
"brothers and sis–
ters." Jesus would
no longer be the
"Son of God"; he
would be tbe "Off–
spring of God," now
"seated at tbe right
hand of tbe Mother
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Fatber."
Tbe ultimate goal
expressed by sorne
g
feminists is to rid
l
the
Bible-and
~
therefore Judaism
~
and Christianity–
!
entirely of wbat they
i
claim are sex ist
S
terms. They insist
~
that religion based
upon the Scriptures
as they stand now is male
oriented and designed to perpetu–
ate male dominance.
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